Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she mislea
You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorali
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stu
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols,
So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, n
If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that pers
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge
But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an i
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impu
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice
But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, dr
Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or ma
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and gre
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adult
So they rushed greedily to the plunder, taking sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them on the ground and ate me
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselve
He held in his hand a small scroll, which lay open. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.
Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the small scroll that lies open in the
Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers
You shall have no other gods before Me.
But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief officia
who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.
Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned ea
“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual imm
See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you m
Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your i
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.